Improvement in pencil-sharpening devices



W. HASKELL.

Pencil-$harpening Device.

Patented July 23,1878.

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N, PETERS. PHOTO UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

VILLIAM HASKELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PENClL-SHARPENING DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,174, dated July 23, W79; application filed June 21, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HASKELL, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement consisting in Spring-Holders for Sharpening Pencils, of which the following is a specification:

The present invention consists in a cylindrical holder, made of spring metal slitted longitndinally, so that it may be expanded to receive pencils of difi'erent sizes; and it is cut away on one side at the end at such a pitch or incline as the pencil is to have at its sharpened end; and to the said end, so cut away, is attached a ring for holding the device, forming a stop for the blade and a guide forthe pencil.

In the drawing is represented a perspective view of my invention, with pencil in position as being sharpened.

A represents a holder which is to be made of light spring metal, such as steel or brass, and of such size as readily to receive a pencil, G. The holder is slitted or open at F, that it may be expanded to receive pencils of different sizes, and it is cut away at E on such an incline as the pencil is to have when sharpened. A ring, B, is, by means of solder or otherwise, made fast to the tapered end of the holder, and, that the blade D may not he injured in coming in contact therewith, it should be made of soft metal; or, it it be made of hard metal, solder should be attached to it closely to the holder to form a stop for the blade. Instead of the ring a small piece of metal may be soldered transversely to the tapered end of the holder, and form a stop for the knife and a guide for the pencil in its rotation, that the reduced part, formed by cutting away the wood, may have a conical contour.

One method of using the device is to put the thumb of the right hand in the ring B, and with a suitable knife in the same hand, the blade of the knife bearing on the beveled part E of the case, cut away the wood of the pencil, while the latter is rotated in the case, with the left hand.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The spring-holder A, open on one side, cutaway at E, and proy'ided with a holder, B, forming a stop for the pencil,substantially as described.

WILLIAM HASKELL.

\Vitnesses G. L. UHAPIN, O. G. 1\/IOREY. 

